While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

True love waits...

Why do anything unless it is going to be great?

Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

My goal was to make first lieutenant. I never spent a lot of time worrying about what came after that.

Making wise decisions requires more than incentives. It requires wisdom.

Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

I've always been a guy that has strived for dominating, not only winning.

To Educate is to Free.

If you want to succeed in life...you must pick 3 bones to carry with you at all times: a wish bone, a backbone, and a funny bone.